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Mahesh Uppal, Director, Telecommunications & Computer Information Systems There are several good reasons to get highway builders involved in building telecom carriage capacity. One, there is still demand for fibre capacity along the long distance or trunk routes in India. With the inevitable growth in services this will increase in the short to medium term unlike in the west, where we've seen bankruptcies because companies miscalculated demand and that led to huge overcapacity.

paperless office, no peons, outsourcing of all ancillary functions, swank workplace with plush interiors. don't mistake this for a high-street bank. this is our very own bharat sarkar. welcome to national highway authority of india, created to set up 14,000 km of world class highways with a budget of rs 60,000 crore, which comes to roughly 3 per cent of the country's gdp. apart from its core function, nhai has also done a first by creating a new work culture by shedding the traditional "bharat sarkar" image.

NEW DELHI: GMR Infrastructure today said the National Highways Authority of India has terminated its contract for building the Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad highway. "GMR Infrastructure has said that GMR Kishangarh Udaipur Ahmedabad Expressways Limited, a subsidiary of the company, has terminated the concession agreement entered into with NHAI for six laning of 555 Km Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad highway," the company informed the BSE. The company had won the project in September, 2011, through the international competitive bidding route.

NEW DELHI: Can a good monsoon wash away the gilt from the golden quadrilateral? The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), whose 206-km toll highway between Gurgaon and Jaipur on NH 8 has a 2 km stretch closed for repairs for a fortnight, believes otherwise. Its operations and maintenance (O&M) contractor, a three-way joint venture firm led by South Africa's Intertoll, has been served a show cause notice for non-performance and termination if repairs are not completed within a month.

KOLKATA: Malaysian government on Friday offered to provide a 'total solution package' in planning, implementation and management services to complement the activities of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). Malaysian minister of Works, Seri S Samy Vellu, told the CII Partnership Summit here that as per a study carried out by his government, India should undertake construction of 10 freeways connecting the major metros and cities to develop a coherent traffic dispersal programme and efficient inter-city linkages.

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has pulled up NHAI and Haryana Government for the excessive delay in construction of Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways, which will ease traffic congestion in the capital. "You are into this since 2008, still you have not commenced work. Tenders are yet to be floated. What kind of efficiency is that? You are an expert body for building roads and this is what you are doing. Does it speak well of your organisation? "This is something very bad. You keep on giving undertakings to courts.

NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), after a dismal show in 2013-14, is readying its work plan for this financial year, one that reflects the pessimism enveloping the sector. It is planning to award about 2,000 km through cash contracts, or EPC mode, and is ready with 3,000 km to be bid via the public-private partnership (PPP) mode. NHAI officials said they have informed the highways ministry of their targets for 2014-15 but awarding projects on the EPC mode can only take off if NHAI is able to acquire 90% of the land.

KENDRAPARA: With Paradip-Daitary expressway in Odisha in pathetic shape, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to develop the highway on an 'Operate-Maintain Transfer' (OMT) mode, NHAI officials said. The tender-bidding process is on to hand over the maintenance work of the highway to a private firm. The contract would be for six years to repair and maintain the highway. As the highway is in bad shape in certain patches, a local construction company has been entrusted to undertake repair till OMT bid is finalised, the officials said.

MUMBAI: Hindustan Construction Company Ltd on Friday said it has bagged Rs 505 crore contracts from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). The company has bagged the two contracts aggregating to Rs 505.16 crore for the Lucknow Muzaffarpur National Highway Project (LMNHP) on NH-28, HCC informed the Bombay Stock Exchange.

MUMBAI: Construction company Gammon India Ltd on Thursday said it has bagged four projects from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd (NHPCL). The projects are worth Rs 1,004.7 crore in aggregate, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange.